"Roxanne-Dunbar-Ortiz has defined the term engaged intellectual
through a life spent on the frontlines of the past four decades
of social struggles. She has never abandoned her roots through
the process of becoming one of the most respected Left academics
in the United States."James Tracy

"Where were you when Che Guevara was murdered
in Bolivia in October 1967? When Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol?
When Angela Davis was on trial for murder, and acquitted? Vividly
Roxanne remembers.."Shulamith Firestone

"Dunbar-Ortiz's most important achievement
is to put class back on the rural map where it belongs."Los Angeles Times

"Professor Dunbar-Ortiz not only
provides an excellent analysis of primary documents but also
captures the spirt of indigenous peoples."-
Glenabah Martinez, native of Taos Indian Pueblo and Asst.
Professor, University of New Mexico.

"In the end, it's only by understanding
our relationship to land that we can move toward justice.
In her amazing book, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz provides the historical
perspective we so desperately need to move forward in the
rich tradition of resistance that is ours."-
Demetria Martínez, author of Confessions of a Berlitz
Tape Chicana. More>>

With Blood on the Border, Roxanne
Dunbar- Ortiz presents the third volume in her critically-acclaimed
memoir. She vividly recounts
on-the-ground memories of the contra war in Nicaragua,
chronicling
the US-sponsored terror inflicted on the people of
Nicaragua following the 1979 revolution that ousted
the US-supported dictator, Somoza, and brought the
socialist Sandinistas to power. More>>

Dunbar-Ortiz was also a dedicated
anti-war activist and organizer throughout the 1960s
and 1970s. During the war years she was a fiery, indefatigable
public speaker on issues of patriarchy, capitalism,
imperialism, and racism. She worked in Cuba with the
Venceremos Brigade and formed associations with other
revolutionaries across the spectrum of radical and
underground politics, including the SDS, the Weather
Underground, the Revolutionary Union, and the African
National Congress. More>>

At once sweetly nostalgic
and inexorably grim, a true study of light and dark. Village
Voice

When the peasants
are deprived of fields to work, so goes the chorus
of an old Irish ballad, all that is left is the love
of the land. In this exquisite rendering of her childhood
in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the
end of the Eisenhower era, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz bears
witness to a family and community which still clings
to the dream of America as a republic of landowners. More>>